28/09/2026
🍗🥘•D•I•D• •Y•O•U• •K•N•O•W•?•🥘🍗
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How’s this for mega meal prep?! Maximum yield, maximum flavour and maximum value for ridiculously minimal effort.
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Sliced onions, a chicken, your choice of spice paste and a can of coconut milk go into a pot, lid on and into the oven for a couple of hours or until cooked through and beginning to fall of the bone.
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Remove the chicken, take off the breasts and thigh meat and set aside. Shred the rest of the meat and set the bones and skin aside.
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Chuck a pack of dried noodles into the pot with a little extra chicken stock (or water) and simmer until cooked. Add the shredded chicken back in along with a pack of stir-fried veg (or your vegetables of choice. É voila!
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Once it’s all portioned up, throw the bones back into the pot, cover with water, bring to the boil and then simmer for an hour or so before straining through a sieve… and that’s your stock to use next time, or in any other soup, stew etc.
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You can even put the skins into a hot oven for a few minutes to crisp up for an extra pop of flavour to sprinkle over your noodles. Zero waste!
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I roughly costed this out:
Chicken: £12.50 - a large Mill Farm chicken
Noodles: £1
Veg: £1.50 (including onions)
Spice paste: 50p (I used a couple of tablespoons)
Coconut milk: 75p
TOTAL: £16.25
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And this made - 10 homemade ready meals for packed lunches (can be served cold as a noodle salad or heated through), a jug of chicken stock and absolutely loads of chicken for sandwiches, wraps or salads.
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Low input ✔️
High output ✔️
Full of flavour ✔️
No nasties ✔️
No waste ✔️
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